Title :
Mode-Locked, Multi-Wavelength Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser with 25 GHz Spacing
Author :
Chen, Lawrence R. ; Cheng, Alan L K ; Shu, Chester ; Doucet, Serge ; LaRochelle, Sophie
Author_Institution :
McGill Univ., Montreal
Abstract :
We demonstrate a mode-locked, multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser with 25 GHz spacing and wavelength tunability operating at 1 GHz. Stable room-temperature operation is obtained by exploiting four-wave mixing in a length of highly nonlinear fiber.
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser tuning; multiwave mixing; Er; four-wave mixing; frequency 25 GHz; laser mode locking; multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser; nonlinear fiber; room-temperature operation; wavelength tunability; Band pass filters; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fluctuations; Frequency; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Optical filters; Pulse modulation; Quantum cascade lasers; Semiconductor lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452478
